Back In the Saddle

I suppose you could say I fell of the workout wagon. I was doing so well. I doubled the amount of miles I had put on my bike in 3 months last summer (as compared to 9 previous months of ownership). I was making most spinning classes.

... and then I got sick (again)... and didn't get well.

Now, 2 weeks after taking dramamine 3 times a day, I can say I've gotten back on. And it feels good. I was worried for a bit. I never had a problem with motivation, and all of a sudden I couldn't seem to make myself go. Thankfully, motivation wasn't the problem (it was taking sleeping pills 3 times a day).

I really missed working out, but riding my bike in particular. This past Saturday was a beautiful day and I really enjoyed the ride. Which has really helped me be excited about trying to get back to (and surpass) the shape I was in. It seemed like a daunting task, but I had forgotten how enjoyable riding is and how much better I feel when regularly excercising.

Now, my challenge is staying well enough and keeping my sinuses in check so that I can stay on the wagon/saddle.

Out With the Old, In With the New

At the end of Christmas break my Dad turned to me and asked if I could have a new car, what would I get? He told me to start thinking and crunching numbers. The Beetle was intended to last through college, after which I would join the "real" world, make some money and get something new. Well, my detour to grad school left two options: fix the Beetle up so that it lasts through the end of grad school, or trade it in for something new.

That got me to thinking. Man, would it be nice to have a new car. Plus, the Beetle needed at least $2000 worth of repairs... not including labor. That, along with the fact that it was only worth $3700 and nearing 100k made me start car shopping. My dad suggested a Mazda3, and I remember how well it did on Topsis, so I started there. I considered the 6 also, and started doing comparisons versus everything in the same class... honda accord and civic, toyota corolla and camry, ford focus, vw jetta and passat, etc etc.

I settled on test driving a 3 and 6 (but leaned more towards 6... I remembered how much I loved it at the car show), so off Dad, Will and I went to Jim Ellis last Friday afternoon. After 2 hours of test driving... first a 2005 4 cylinder Mazda 6, a 2006 Mazda 3 and a 2006 6 cylinder Mazda 6. I can now say that I understand why their slogan is "zoom zoom." Unfortunately, I loved the v6, which means bigger price tag.

I ended up getting one from a dealership my brother recommended. It's the first car where I've considered performance as seriously as any other metric (in fact, I chose to spend more for the nicer engine as opposed to moonroof and cd chager) and boy does it show. Everything I drive it, I smile. And it's not hard on the eyes, either.


One of the best parts, though, is that I totally did everything myself. Well, except for the male support that every girl needs at a dealership. It's only my name on the papers, which is awesome. I feel like such an adult... up next, a "real" place to live!

Plus, this car is so nice compared to my other one, it's a huge step up. I even forgot to be sad to part with my little Beetle... even after all we'd been through.

Some of the features I adore:
215 hp (makes it very zoomy)
6spd automatic... but still manual in a way
Climate control
Satellite radio (1st month as a trial, thanks to will!)
Auto-dim mirror
Audio control things on the steering wheel
Nice stereo system
Power seats
HUGE trunk!

and I'm sure I'll find many many more!

... ok, so I'm being totally superficial. Oh well :-p

Code for Dramamine

I was really struggling last week. Completely exhausted all the time, even though I am logging more sleep than ever (am actually logging... if I average 8hrs/night for 1 month, I get something from Will... that something tbd). I could've been so productive last week, but I found myself just hanging around, usually napping. I was confused about what it could be: Am I just burnt out? Depressed? Is Kristy rubbing off on me?

Then, on Saturday, a discovery. The medicine I had been prescribed to take 3 times a day for 2 weeks has a label on the back of the bottle (where one looks for instructions, naturally) that says "may cause marked drowsiness, do not operate heavy machinery." Today, when I was looking up what is in it to see whether I was eligible to donate blood and it's just generic dramamine.

Yep... I'm taking dramamine... all day long. Well, at least it's not something more serious.

This weekend was pretty fun... until Monday. Dinner, Friends watching, Jaime's graduation party, babysitting, Mansion party, Swim club movie thing. Then Will woke up sick Monday morning and shortly after Hurricane Bill (aka the roomie who flooded the apartment) struck and the rest of the day was spent cleaning up. I myself played the part of FEMA this time, except I was actually useful (retrieved my Dad's carpet machine from Dunwoody) and by the early evening we weren't splashing about anymore.

The Mansion party was pretty fun. Two guys on my fixed wing design team went along, which was surprising. I thought both the band and dj weren't very good, but the company was good and it was nice to see people I hadn't seen in a while. And, extremely amusing to watch all the "shenanigans" that took place. And they're on video.

And now it's the soggy start of another week and it looks like I'll be pretty busy, so I should probably get going on something... like taking a nap, cause I just took my medicine.

The Do-Gooder

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I'm not sure about that example thing, but otherwise seems to be correct.

Grad School: Week One

Well, this week has been relatively calm, with the exception of some money stress (thank you Tech for not paying me for another month!) It really is extremely surprising, since unlike other more fortunate majors, AEs usually get slammed with reading and homework from day 1. None of this 'let's go over the syllabus and call it a day stuff.' And not this happened in any of my classes, but 2 of the 3 were cancelled this week. So it made for not only definitely the easiest first week I've ever had, but also one of the easiest weeks I've ever had at this school. Period.

Just in time, too. Because I am dealing with some serious lack of motivation, man am I burned out issues. This week did come with the usual what classes do I take drama. I signed up for fixed wing, adm 2 and design seminar like I was supposed to, but struggled with propulsion and spanish linguistics. I heard many bad things about propulsion, including that it wasn't very useful... plus it's Fridays 3-6, so the decision to not take it was somewhat easy. Although I still fear the wrath of Doc on this one.

Spanish was more difficult. For the first time ever I found myself dreading going to that class. Never has this happened with a language class before... not even when they were 3 hours long. The class I went to, Spanish Linguistics, is taught by a woman from Spain and sounds extremely interesting. However, there is a fair amount of work involved with the class, including a project that comprises nearly half the final grade. I just didn't feel like doing the work... which was really disappointing, because I try to never let that stand in the way of a great class.

But, after some chats with my favorite people, we all agreed that I should ease up on the course load to give myself time to adjust and to also recover from last semester. There you have it folks: for the first time since I can remember, I am taking the easy way out and not pushing myself.

As hard as this is for me to be ok with, I feel that in the end it will be the right decision. After being sick almost all of 2005, I'd like to focus more on myself and my health this year. That includes not having to stay up late to finish work, not stressing out so much, not running around like crazy, sleeping enough and excercising regularly.

Now if I could only find the motivation... Melissa is probably waiting for me to lose what she has to gain!

And so it begins...

New year, new degree, same great roomies! (Missed you girls, glad we're all back and I'm looking forward to hanging out... even though 'Mommy' disaproves of some things that transpired over break...)

So it begins again. Here's hoping this semester will be less stressful and more beneficial. And healthy. For everyone!

Yay to no morning classes!

2005: Year in Review

Taken from Jen Lee!!! (who is my most favorite internet person... both on flickr and blogs!)

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Raced a bike. Graduated from college. Went to Chattanooga. Worked an 18 hour day.

2. Did you keep your New Year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

• finally finish my pilot's license - didn't happen
  
• get an internship - didn't happen either
  
• ride my bike a lot (get in shape) - sorta happened
  
• read my bible/pray more often - sorta happened
  
• be better about getting work done early - ?
  
• stretch at least once a day - sorta
  

My new ones will be similar and mostly health/athleticism associated, but they will have more measurable goals.

3. Did someone close to you give birth?
Nope!

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope!

5. What countries did you visit?
It was a slow year for the countries... sadly... does south Georgia count as another country? Cause it sure does feel like one sometimes...

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2005?
Better friends.

7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
July 26 - 2 year anniversary
December 17 - Graduation!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Graduating? Getting a decent grade in aeroelasticity, surviving NASA's ESAS fiasco, racing in a cycling race (ok, only one event, but that counts, right?)

9. What was your biggest failure?
hmm... my several meltdowns

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
It was the year of the illness... 6+ sinus infections, bronchitis twice, almost caught pneumonia, my first asthma attack, ear infection, getting sick from flu shot and the list goes on

11. What was the best thing you bought?
my ibook! helping will get his digital camera, aquarium passes for the whole family, kaya's dollhouse

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Will. He is my rock and my sunshine. And deserves to be acknowledged for insisting that I call him at 330 am when I am having a meltdown... and that he helps me with just about every tough situation that I have

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
All those wonderful girls who turned out to be no different, the kid affectionately known as "biker-pussy" and mostly all politicians.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Eating out, gas, clothes... aquarium passes?

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Spending New Year's with Will, travelling

16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
hmmm...

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or hardened? happier.
ii. thinner or fatter? fatter? thinner? who knows... :-p
iii. richer or poorer? poorer... til february, then richer!

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
sleep, cycling

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
stress, procrastinate, stay up late, fluids lab writing

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
family and friends

22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
My love keeps growing... pretty amazing!

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Gilmore Girls!!! The Daily Show and The Colbert Report

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I wouldn't dignify them with hate, but thank you to all those females who taught me that women in engineering can be no different that your regular catty, two-faced, shallow high schoolers.

26. What was the best book you read?
Memoirs of a Geisha. Hands down.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
hmm... Lifehouse, Howie Day, Ludacris

28. What did you want and get?
The Friends 10 season collection, an awesome ring and a beautiful necklace. 3 great roomies!

29. What did you want and not get?
a bike rack for my car

30. Favorite film of this year?
Wedding Crashers

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 22 on March 13. That weekend was my first cycling race, and we went out to Mellow Mushroom with my closest friends. Then to ice cream. And actual birthday day was at home.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Less drama/disappointment.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Old Navy rocks!

34. What kept you sane?
Will.

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Lance Armstrong.

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
I have to pick just one? All the corruption.

37. Who do you miss?
At the moment? my friends that all have scattered for the break...

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Melissa! And re-meeting Heather

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
To not let people walk all over me. To choose to be happy and not sweat the smaller things.

What is going on?!?

Ok, so I just found out another set of friends got engaged. That makes 6 couples that I know in the past few months... plus the 2 that actually got married.

Is something in the air?

Converted.

I am a convert.

Meet Snow White. Isn't she pretty?

Merry Christ-makuh

I can just see the smoke coming out of Bill O'Reilly's ears. Christ-makuh? Certainly that goes hand-in-hand with his whole War on Christmas.

But the thing is, my little 5 person family (6 during the holidays when my Grandmother visits) doesn't have the luxury of spending Christmas with our extended family. The few that we still communicate with couldn't afford to come up here, and we can't afford to all travel down there.

So, it has been a long custom of my family to open our doors to anyone on all the holidays. I think this stems from our culture. Always the more, the merrier. Over Thanksgiving our house is opened to whoever didn't get the chance to make the trip home. This year it was Lucas, Heather, Christy, and Ryan.

For the past several years we have celebrated Christmas with our neighbors across the street, the Wolffs. We have known them for many years and consider them to be the family we have chosen.

One thing... they're Jewish. And we're Catholic. That means we don't even really say a blessing or a prayer before we eat. Yeah, ok, so what? Some people don't even stop and pause between all the shopping and bad traffic to think about what Christmas means or even to just be a little kinder. What does it matter if you ignore all the details?

It matters to me, though, and I think that's why we actually capture the "Christmas" spirit with our half Jewish half Christian celebration. What better than to spend time with the family we've chosen and to appreciate diversity and learn a little while we're at it?

Plus, since Hanukah starts today, this year we had potato pancakes too. With ham (it helps that they're mostly 'culinary' Jews). :-)

How's the family?

Wednesday, after running around for a few days trying to catch up on stuff, I headed down to Columbus to visit Will at his parent's house. It took me 3 hours to get there, thanks to Atlanta traffic, but fortunately I was entertained most of the time with All Things Considered (up to the point where it started repeating, anyway).

It's an interesting situation. Will has spent countless hours with my family. He is so comfortable with them (and vice versa) that it's ok to leave him alone with them at graduation or talking with my dad while I run errands with my mom (weird, I know). Not so for me and his family. In almost 2.5 years (Jan 26!), I've been down there maybe 6 or 7 times.

They're definitely very nice, but they don't have that friends are family mentality that my family does... most likely because they are blessed to have plenty of family around (a luxury the Carneiro clan does not have). Then there was the stuff about his mom disapproving. He says it's because she doesn't like anyone.

This visit was definitely the best. Perhaps they're becoming accustomed to the idea of me... hey, I think it's about time! Doesn't hurt that I try to butter them up with wine every Christmas. But this time, they had gifts for me too... one for graduation and one for Christmas.

I enjoy spending time getting to know his family. His brother and sister (especially his sister) have really warmed up to me and this time I even met one member of his extended family, one of his aunts.

But mostly I love the visits because I get to spend lots of relaxing time with Will in his element... such as building bonfires for us and his sister's friends to roast marshmallows and hot dogs... and drink booze from Boo's later after his parents have gone to sleep.

There was one hiccup this visit, though. Will agreed to go shopping with me Thursday since I didn't have time to finish everything on Wednesday. His sister went along and we grabbed some lunch. After lunch, Liz and I were in Bath and Body Works while Will was getting something in Bed Bath and Beyond. As we were walking out, they run into someone they know. Then someone's mother. Then I caught on... hey, isn't that Will's ex-girlfriend's last name? To help me confirm, there comes ex-girlfriend herself and another member of her family.

So that was awkward. Even more so for Will since he hadn't seen any of them since they broke up in early 2003. All I have to say is I'm really glad I fixed my hair that day.

I know girls who refuse to leave their house looking like bums, ever... I think I now know why!

Gradumanated!!!

Everything turned out fine with aeroelasticity (in fact, I pulled my grade up a lot, which surprised even the Dicky) and this past Saturday I walked at Graduation.

I guess with the bachelor's degree becoming what a high school diploma once was, graduation isn't a big deal to a lot of people. But, for my family, it is the culmination of the move away from our home country and family in order to have access to better lives. I actually at one point almost became really emotional. I have reports that my dad didn't cry (he did at the high school one). Who knows, maybe when I get my masters?

There are certain things that I will never forget about the event: the look on Will's face, the mayor getting the year wrong (and the idiot kid next to me agreeing with her... shouldn't they not give you a degree if you can't even get the year straight?), the man horribly butchering my name, crazy Buzz and how it looked to be in a white and gold balloon shower.

Afterwards my parents took us out to lunch with the Wolffs, Heather, Becky, Alden, Kaya and the Malloys at Maggiano's. Definitely one of the best meals I've ever had, made infinitely better by all my favorites there with me.

Later that night was my party at my brother's, which was lots of fun. I'm irritated because a good number of people who said they would show didn't, which wouldn't have been a big deal (because most of my favorites were there!) except that it made the keg unnecessary and even more irritated that some (ok, one) that were there shouldn't have bothered! But any, we played all of my favorite drinking games and the night ended with what I like to call "the Will show," this episode being about on-campus bedding and its similarities to a "fuzzy tampon." It turns out that he meant to say maxi-pad... hilarious!

I am just truly grateful for all those who helped me celebrate (Kristy, I know you were there in spirit!) especially Melissa, Stephen, John and Justin who all drove long ways and Lucas who delayed his departure.

As I look back on my 12 semesters (yep, it took 12!) there are a lot of things I did and wish I hadn't, didn't and wish I had, but mostly I am satisfied with my experience. And hey, hopefully getting my masters will be a shorter, funner continuation of life there...

I guess things won't be changing that much for me, unlike many I know who are moving clear across the country. At least not yet. For the time being (til May) I will live with my favorite girls, work at the same place (new desk though!), and the classes will be considerably different. Mostly I just know the time will fly by and before I realize it I'll be walking again... and after that time I won't come back for more! Michelle has already argued with me about getting a PhD... by I think I'm going to stand firm on that one. I could be persuaded to go for an MBA though...

My Growing List of Pet Peeves

For the past few weeks I have been compiling in my mind a growing list of the political/social issues that I stand for (and very often disagree with the government with). This list includes:

1) human rights abuses and capital punishment
2) the right to choose
3) gay rights
4) simultaneous tax cuts and education/health care spending cuts
5) health care

and the list goes on... and on... and on.

This article sums up a lot of how I feel recently. And probably written a lot better than I would write.

And...

I'm done!? Sorta...

Where has the motivation gone?

Invitations have gone out for the kick ass party... 1 week from today it will all be over.

Nowhere can I find the motivation to do the work that is left. I have been procrastinating like no other this week. Or, the past few. This was a rough semester, each week was crazy. Dead week has actually been not as busy (although still extremely busy) for once...

I really need to motivate myself because one grade actually matters. For the rest I try a little (between being sick and having no motivation) because for some reason I can't completely let go.

School Left:
1) Spanish presentation tomorrow (already finished, just needs to be practiced once)
2) Aeroelasticity project... more than half coded, coding needs to be finished, project written up
3) Aero final... Wednesday at 8am... I need to study my butt off for this one!
4) Structures final... ah... I'll try a little
5) Spanish independent study paper... needs a little background story, re-read the Gabriel Garcia Marquez story that it's on and write it!
6) Cats2 (graduate aircraft design class) presentation to Doc at some point

Wow... that looks like a lot. I probably should get going on that.

Hey Melissa... how about we cheer each other on?!? :-)

My (Lack of Good) Health

Will says I have been sick ever since he's known me (right around 2.5 years). I have struggled with many sinus infections, asthma, and various colds and flus since my senior year of high school. This year has been by far the worst.

In the spring I was placed on antibiotics 5 separate times for sinus infections. The last one turned into brochitis and a strong likely hood of pneumonia (I have to admit that the health center was very good about monitoring me weekly and treating what I had). Unfortunately these all happened right after my first cycling race, so that put me out of commission until the summer. Summer was ok (lack of things to be allergic to, lots of rain).

This fall I have fortunately only had 1 sinus infection (actually, it might have been 2... at this point it's hard to keep track). My allergies were the worst this fall. I've only struggled with excercise-induced asthma in the past. This fall I found myself wheezing after the AE stairs, walking to class, walking up the stairs to my apartment. I was put on an every day steriod treatment that helped immensely. I was just about to start back with the workouts when I caught a cold. It went straight to my chest, and here I am with broncitis... again.

Right now I'm just extremely anxious about getting back onto the whole workout thing. On the bright side, today marks the beginning of my last week as an undergrad. I was officially accepted to grad school on Monday. The offer I received was better than I expected, so that was exciting. I also will only be taking one or two class, so hopefully things will calm down for a bit.

I hope to sleep more than 5 hours each night, workout every day, read everything that I want to, and many many more things. Yeah... we'll see how it goes.

Oh, interesting news. It turns out Mike Griffin (or Mr. Gobble, as I like to refer to him) is giving the commencement speech this Fall. He's also stopping by the ASDL for a little bit, since we did all that ESAS work this summer. Should be interesting. Sadly, it means that we have to take down the huge picture of him and his gobble neck.

Good and Bad Things

"Bad things happening to bad people. Don't lie, it makes you feel good because it gives you a sense of justice, even though you know that life is not just and that true justice comes only at the end of all things. It also reaffirms that which you know to be right and good, like our own morals."

Yep, Melissa, you nailed it. I always feel bad because I feel good when I see people who were crappy to me or wronged me get some karma. But it's superly nice to know that in such a crazy world, some things still make sense.

Last night at dinner Will told me the most hilarious thing. I am so evil that I enjoy that. But hey, what you send out in the world will come back to haunt you, so if you've been walking all over people for a few years, don't be surprised if you have some "bad luck" for awhile. Although, in my experience these people don't actually realize that they are the reason they are having hard times.

Last week of classes coming up. The work load has been much lighter since completing the last fluids report. It's amazing how much time those suck up. I only have 2 presentations, a homework, and a project left this semester. Then 2 finals and a Spanish paper. That's like nothing! Which probably explains why I am so unmotivated. Most kids I know are having their last week of classes ever. Not me, I start back in January as a grad student. Although, to my knowledge, I will only be in one or two classes. Thank God, I could use a break! The stupid AE department still hasn't given me my letter, even though Lexie (the financial manager of the ASDL and a total bitch) called Dr. Jagoda and yelled at her. He attempted to argue with her about Dr. Mavris accepting me. I can't wait til all of the out of touch dinosaurs leave, then the department can actually try to be good. I don't blame those who run as quickly as possible after graduation. The ASDL is that department's saving grace, in my opinion (both monetarily and educationally).


I made an album of a lot of my favorite pictures of me and Will on facebook and it made me realize that we've had a lot of fun together, which is great! Not to mention one of my favorite dates ever last night. Too bad he irritated me this morning :-p

Heather and my brother had a good date, which I am excited about. I'm not interested in the details, though.

Ah!

Help, I've turned into one of those people who never update!

The past few weeks and weekends have been extremely busy. I have been making mental notes on entries I would like to write, but for some reason or another I never seem to get around to it. Now I suppose this one will be a big update in general...

The first I wanted to write was about hanging out with my brother. Will, Heather and I ended up going over to his place to watch the UGA vs Auburn game (yay for Auburn winning!) Will left earlly but Heather and I went to a bar he likes to go to (the name escapes me) where all the rich emory kids go. It was nice to not pay for anything all night. But what was strange about the evening was hanging out with my brother. Througout our childhood we had huge problems with each other, being that we have completely conflicting personalities and beliefs (which is part of the reason I think children are born with their personalities, because how could two such different children come from the same genes and environment?) Anyway, being that he has gotten his life together recently, and that (according to him) I have mellowed out, we have started to get along. It was nice to spend some time with him. For a long time I wondered if my little family unit would ever grow closer as expected with age, since there was always so much conflict between us. What's even better is that he will be throwing my kick ass graduation party!!!

I found out that night that his roommate has gone back to dating a girl I was friends with in high school. This is extremely depressing since she's not cool and he could do way better. But oh well.

The following weekend we helped Alex celebrate her 22nd birthday!! It was an awesome night. Dinner and sake bombs at RuSan's (I won! See picture of peenie man), Tech beating Miami, running around campus singing the Ramblin Wreck and the Thanksgiving party at Delta Chi with Indian Farts like the wind, turkey baster and ice luge shots, and that weird ass dance song that I've only heard there. My one complaint is that I need to find people who will stay out later with me! :-p

The two days before Thanksgiving were crazy. Thanksgiving itself was pretty fun. Kristy, Heather and Lucas came to stay at my house Wednesday and Thursday. Ryan came just for dinner, along with Becky, Alden and Kaya. We ate a lot, dipped fruit in the chocolate fountain, my brother got my (underage) sister drunk, and the dinner ended in everyone doing shots around the table. I love my family.

Alden got sick the next day and ended up in the hospital (stomach virus). Either I caught that or the cold they kids have had because I have been sick since saturday. Nevertheless, I drove down to campus Saturday night to go to the UGA game. It was a nervewracking game, and I thought the teams were pretty evenly matched. We played well, although I am still irritated because I think with good coaching we could be so much better! It was awesome to see all of campus excited, the stadium full and everyone waving their gold streamer pom pom things. Oh, and it was fun trash talking over text messages with my brother... until we lost that is. :-p

Sunday a bunch of us took the kids to the aquarium. My brother went just cause Heather went, which was cute and I hope they end up dating. Kristy also went with us, and Alden loved her which was cute. I enjoyed the aquarium even though it was so crowded, although I think the Chattanooga aquarium still competes with it (all the hype over it being the worlds largest and all that stuff...) although it was amazing to watch the belugas in their water ballet, walk through the whale shark tunnel, and to see the penguins. I think they could have more educational stuff, as well as more variety. The Chattanooga aquarium does a good job explaining and presenting all types of water environments from all over the world. But all in all I think the butt load of money that I spent on annual passes for my entire family was well spent.

Now there are two crazy weeks chock full of work left, 2 exams, 1 paper and then graduation! (granted I do well on the aeroelasticity final). I wonder if grad school will feel different...

Pictures to be posted when I get them...

My Life

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:	7.7
Mind:	6.7
Body:	7.7
Spirit:	6.4
Friends/Family:	6.1
Love:	7.7
Finance:	7.9
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One of my favorite things...

Taking a nap with my kitty curled up with me next to the fire.

Other favorite things (to be expanded on in the near future when the craziness dies down):
1) partying with melissa, alex, kristy, stephen, etc
2) when tech wins!
3) many others...